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Baby name
Guy
Boy
Origin of the name
Guy comes from the Old French Gui, from the Germanic Wido, latinized as Guido; it is often linked to wid, “wood.”
Classic name
90,632births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 149rank at its peak, in 1957
Where babies named Guy are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Guy is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Guy is most common in Hawaii (3.6 times), Maine (2.4) and West Virginia (1.8), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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